password on editor bio pages

hi, ive just been aimlessly reading a few of the editor bio pages, and some of them ask for passwords, is that supposed to happen?

[removed. Windharp's answer is more complete, and has a good guess at what the problem is likely to be]

Are you talking about the editor profiles on dmoz.org? No, usually that should not happen. I guess those profiles link images from the ODP Editor server by accident. When an editor is already logged in (and you have to be to change your profile) he won't notice that a link he copy&pastes needs a login.

If you remember where you have seen that, please drop me a private message so I can tell the editors about it and ask them to change their profile.

windharp said:

Are you talking about the editor profiles on dmoz.org?

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Yes.

PM Sent.

Thaks for the explanation, I can imagine that being an issue!

Thanks for sending me the examples. As I had thought, those editors link to images from our editor-only server, which means a login is required to display them. I'll ask them to change the links to our public server.

If anyone finds similiar occurences, either contact the editor directly or send a note to any active moderator of this forum (like me).

(If you wonder why I asked for that information to be sent via PM: There was a small risk that my assumption was wrong and that it was a sign of a new kind of abuse. Not very likely IMHO, but who knows...)

I have come across the same issue on other dmoz related sites, such as help sites that some editors put on the net, or dmoz related pages that some editors put on their blogs etc. Its quite common. I guess with those being outside of dmoz.org though you will have less influence (and perhaps less desire) on getting them updated/changed.

There are various possibilities for those links. Editors may have put them in for their own use, or for other editors, or for general consumption. In the last case, they might appreciate knowing the links didn't work.

I have come across the same issue on other dmoz related sites, such as help sites that some editors put on the net, or dmoz related pages that some editors put on their blogs etc. Its quite common. I guess with those being outside of dmoz.org though you will have less influence (and perhaps less desire) on getting them updated/changed.

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Many of those links are intended to be accessed only by editors, hence the reason they point to editor-only pages.